checkpoint SKILL.md skillA

checkpoint from ij5a/subrosa is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add ij5a/subrosa/checkpoint@git:20261104.d89ed06

Pins git:20261104.d89ed06 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
ij5a/subrosa
Path
skills/checkpoint/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
10
Latest version
git:20261104.d89ed06, committed Nov 4, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 6, 2026
Size
10,840 bytes
Repository stars
5
License
MIT

Flush durable facts from the current conversation into subrosa's memory before /clear or /compact. Scans the session for user, feedback, project, and reference items; writes or updates leaf memory files and the facts database, then regenerates the byte-budgeted MEMORY.md; soft-archives stale entries; reports a short session recap and confirms it's safe to wipe.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# checkpoint: flush memory before a context wipe

The user is about to run `/clear` or `/compact`. Save durable facts before either command, then report whether it is safe to wipe.

`MEMORY.md` is **generated** from (`~/.claude/subrosa/memory.db`). Never hand-edit it. Write leaf files and register facts. The generator rebuilds the byte-budgeted index. Use the `subrosa` CLI (`subrosa fact …`, `subrosa generate`, `subrosa search …`). If it is not on PATH, bootstrap installs it at `~/.claude/subrosa/bin/subrosa`.

## Procedure

1. **Scan the full conversation.** Review every turn, not only the last. Classify each candidate as one of these four types:
   - **user:** role, preferences, knowledge, and working context
   - **feedback:** corrections and validated approaches. Include the reason for both.
   - **project:** ongoing work, deadlines, motivations, roles, and reasons
   - **reference:** pointers to external systems, dashboards, and ticket projects

2. **Apply the exclusion list strictly.** Never save:
   - Code patterns, conventions, file paths, or architecture
   - Git history, commit hashes, blame info, or PR numbers
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add ij5a/subrosa/checkpoint@sha256:48b05d483665b90a

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261104.d89ed06, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_bjlrugacz3ve63wn.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_bjlrugacz3ve63wn)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 10 versions of this file, between Jul 6, 2026 and Nov 4, 2026, about one every 13 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261104.d89ed06 latest2026-11-04 d89ed06 10,840 BA view · diff
git:20261005.43bed152026-10-05 43bed15 10,565 BA view · diff
git:20261005.f9a75fe2026-10-05 f9a75fe 10,445 BA view · diff
git:20260930.365dda52026-09-30 365dda5 10,263 BA view · diff
git:20260920.f242d3f2026-09-20 f242d3f 10,218 BA view · diff
git:20260830.448ec5d2026-08-30 448ec5d 8,779 BA view · diff
git:20260808.a8efe6a2026-08-08 a8efe6a 10,384 BA view · diff
git:20260807.5d761912026-08-07 5d76191 9,606 BA view · diff
git:20260707.f2f4dee2026-07-07 f2f4dee 9,372 BA view · diff
git:20260706.266080f2026-07-06 266080f 9,372 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10840 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

ij5a/subrosa · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bjlrugacz3ve63wn
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ij5a/subrosa/checkpoint
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/48b05d483665b90aaeabda35843b6420e910b9b708e0cc4d6075107b5dff5eed

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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